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Unabridged Digital Audiobook
Runtime: 9 hours, 26 minutes
Read by Helen Laser and Karissa Vacker
There are some things from which you just don’t recover. In the audio edition of Forget Me Not by author Stacy Willingham, a woman finds herself returning home, only to end up caught right back up in the memories of her sister, who disappeared more than two decades ago.
The story follows journalist Claire Campbell home to South Carolina for the first time in years to care for her injured mother. Twenty-two years ago, Claire’s older sister, Natalie, disappeared, and an older boyfriend was charged with her murder. Ever since then, Claire has tried to forget. But being back home brings back so many memories—so when she visits Galloway Farm, where Natalie worked that last summer, she accepts a summer job in the place where she feels close to her sister. But the more time she spends there, the more suspicious the place begins to feel.
Claire is a troubled character at the end of her rope. She arrives back in South Carolina in need of an escape—some time to think through her life, rethink her goals, and plan her future. After years in New York City, she feels lost—as if she’s thrown her entire life into a career that’s going nowhere. It’s not easy to be home, in a place with so many painful memories—and her attempt to reconnect with her sister pulls her into Galloway’s dark secrets.
At first, life on the farm seems too good to be true. It’s a beautiful, serene place. The job is hard but repetitive and almost calming. And she enjoys talking with Liam, the manager. Shortly after she moves into the guest house, though, she discovers a diary that was written by one of the owners 40 years ago—a story of first love and teenage rebellion that eventually takes an eerie turn.
It does take a while for the tension to build—for Claire to start searching for answers about the farm’s owners and how their story might be connected to her sister’s. But when it does, this story of a woman who’s struggling to get her life back turns into something so much darker and more suspenseful. And despite its slow start, the rest of the book will keep listeners coming back, eager to hear the truth about the farm—and what happened all those years ago.
Forget Me Not is a slow burn of a story that takes a character who’s spent most of her life wrestling with the past and puts her right in the middle of the things that have haunted her the most. It’s quietly captivating and loaded with twists.
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